EXERCISE I.

State the use of the verbs _may_, _can_, _must_, _ought_, _should_ and

_would_ in the following sentences:—

1. For I can weather the roughest gale,

That ever wind did blow.—_Longfellow._

2. She must weep or she will die.—_Tennyson._

3. We ought to obey God.—_Bible._

4. And when he next doth ride abroad

May I be there to see!—_Cowper._

5. “Please, Brown,” he whispered, “may I wash my face and

hands?”—_Hughes._

6. I would not for the wealth of all the town

Here in my home do him disparagement.—_Shakespeare._

7. For men may come and men may go,

But I go on forever.—_Tennyson._

8. If a storm should come and wake the deep,

What matter! I shall ride and sleep.—_Procter._

9. It may be that Death’s bright angel

Will speak in that chord again,

It may be that only in Heaven

I shall hear that grand Amen.—_Procter._

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